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"unbreakable" quantum crypto cracked by a laser
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Oct 24 08:27:19 2008
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:46:19 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14866-laser-cracks-unbreakable-quantum-communications.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Not surprisingly, it's attacking the implementation, not the physics --
but of course we use implementations to communicate, rather than
theories.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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